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Champagne Les Empreintes extra-brut 2018
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Champagne Les Empreintes extra-brut 2018
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Features
Domaine en cours de conversion vers l'agriculture biologique
Les Empreintes sont, pour les frères Laherte, la quintessence du terroir de Chavot. Aucun assemblage n’est défini : il s’agit simplement de mettre en valeur la typicité singulière de chaque année… Actuellement, l’empreinte de la vendange 2016. Travail sur la tension et la pureté sans tomber dans la verdeur.
Pratiques culturales : traditionalistes et durables. Influencées par des pratiques naturelles et dynamiques.
Cépages et Vignoble :
50 % Chardonnay (dont 1/3 de Chardonnay muscaté). Les Chemins d’Epernay. Terres peu profondes avec de l’argile très fin reposant sur une couche crayeuse. Bas de coteau. Parcelle plantée en 1957.
50 % Pinot Noir. Les Rouges Maisons. Terres riches et humides. Présence importante d’argile, avec fragments de silex. Milieu de coteau. Parcelle plantée en 1983.
Vinification :
Raisins cueillis manuellement à maturité optimum, puis pressurage traditionnel
Sélection des premiers jus uniquement avec débourbage très léger
Fermentation alcoolique lente et spontanée en barriques (âgées de 3 à 10 ans )
Elevage sur lies fines pendant 6 mois avec quelques bâtonnages.
Fermentation malo-lactique non réalisée. Passage au frois naturel
Non filtré
Dégorgement et Dosage : novembre 2023 - dosage de 1 à 4 g/l
12.5 % Alc. Vol
Citations
Gault & Millau 2017 : à la fois puissant et fin; il offre des notes de fruits jaunes et de fruits rouges qui se succèdent et s'entremêlent. 16.50/20
House founded in 2003
One of the widest selections of the web of authors' wines and craftsmen
What is an author wine?
This can be so diverse depending on the personality of their sire, that it is easier to define what it is not. An author wine is anything but a standard, stereotypical wine, made to please as many people as possible. It is therefore rarely produced in millions of copies, copying itself from vintage in vintage.
An author wine is therefore a wine that does not look like that of the neighbor. Which from year to year will evolve according to the vagaries of the weather and the mood of the author - the two that can be linked. Because the author does not rely on market studies to carry out his boat. He makes his wine as he feels, as he likes, as he can, sometimes ... and too bad if he does not please everyone.
This is why author wines are sometimes classified as "table wine" or "France wine". Because the winemaker did not plan the authorized grape variety*, makes the assembly or vinification recommended in the name **. He is often a bit rebellious, our author. But that is why we like it! ... That said, author's wines are not systematically marginal: they are present in most of the appellations, and can be part of the elite of these this***. Because they are not content to have personality: they are good, in addition! With in general aDegree of TorchabilityVery high: we never tire of it at the end of the first sip.
As author's wines are not chaptalized, levied, hacked ... They can have very different profiles depending on the vintage. It is up to us (resellers and consumers) to accept them as they are, and to remain faithful to the producers, because they need us to continue their activity.
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* For example, theTouriga Nacionalin the Minervois, or theSyrahIn Forez ribs. They are crazy, these authors!
** Some winegrowers dare to produceSweety with Mourvèdre or oneNatural sparkling with Pineau d'Aunis
*** Like those of Jean-François Ganevat in the Jura or Zind-Humbercht in Alsace
